Germany, Wehrmacht. A Black Grade Wound Badge, By Heinrich Wander Auction the cover with a silver

the cover with a silver embossed 1914 Iron Cross and inscription of “KRIEGSERINNERUNG 1914-1917”

Northumberland Fusiliers was slightly wounded in action at Brakenlaagte on October 30

His status was later updated to "for official purposes presumed to have died on or since"

"CHINA" to the left

museum coded in white ink (RCMI 2000

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Black Grade Wound Badge, By Heinrich Wander Auction the cover with a silver(Verwundetenabzeichen in Schwarz). Constructed of blackened magnetic metal, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, with a central raised Stahlhelm overlaid by a mobile swastika, on top of crossed swords on a pebbled field, the reverse with a vertical pinback meeting a flattened catch, unmarked, measuring 36. 62 mm (w) x 44. 26 mm (h), weighing 6. 7 grams, accompanied by its period original